That hardware monitor seems a bit gimmicky but the ability to turn your computer on from your cell phone (also a bit gimmicky) as you enter your house seems pretty awesome to me. By the time you're already comfortable your rig is up and running and waiting for you so +1 for saving the min it would normally take. The ability to flash your bios back to an earlier state with the press of a button and a usb stick is what impressed me the most and it really is an amazing feature. I might consider upgrading in a few months if theres ever a possible price drop or sale .

So are no NF200 in the final build? I have an X-Fire setup so if I run my 8800GT as a physx card and an asus xonar essence on the other x16 slots its gonna be switched to x8/x8/x8/x8 or do I have a choice in the BIOS to how it's switched?

So are no NF200 in the final build? I have an X-Fire setup so if I run my 8800GT as a physx card and an asus xonar essence on the other x16 slots its gonna be switched to x8/x8/x8/x8 or do I have a choice in the BIOS to how it's switched?

NF200 would be a deal killer for me because i want that chip on any board i buy.

NF200 would be a deal killer for me because i want that chip on any board i buy.

I had the ASUS WS P6T7 motherboard in hand, and I chose the R2E over it. The NF200 will only really be utilized for workstations as 3-card setups seem to run pretty poorly. I sold the P6T7 and stuck with the R2E because of all the other features the ROG boards offer. I wouldn't discount the R3E just because it doesnt have an NF200. The board does have a PLX bridge chip which seems to act like the NF200. After all, you can run 3 cards with x16 lanes.Edited by ericeod - 3/20/10 at 12:30am

I had the ASUS WS P6T7 motherboard in hand, and I chose the R2E over it. The NF200 will only really be utilized for workstations as 3-card setups seem to run pretty poorly. I sold the P6T7 and stuch with the R2E because of all the other features the ROG boards offer. I wouldn't discount the R3E just because it doesnt have an NF200. The board does have a PLX bridge chip which seems to act like the NF200. After all, you can run 3 cards with x16 lanes.

Very good points eric. Anything more then 3 cards really isn't even needed these days

I had the ASUS WS P6T7 motherboard in hand, and I chose the R2E over it. The NF200 will only really be utilized for workstations as 3-card setups seem to run pretty poorly. I sold the P6T7 and stuck with the R2E because of all the other features the ROG boards offer. I wouldn't discount the R3E just because it doesnt have an NF200. The board does have a PLX bridge chip which seems to act like the NF200. After all, you can run 3 cards with x16 lanes.

Good points, but... everything I've read points to the Rampage III Extreme having the nF200 bridge for the graphics cards, not a PLX bridge.

Edit; caught up on the topic on other forums, looks like they cut out the nF200 bridge. Still, there's the possibility that they'll have a revision later with the bridge in place. However I haven't been able to determine if there's a PLX bridge or not... I would assume so since USB 3.0 and SATA 6.0Gbps would be using tons of bandwidth.